Bringing Live Animals to Your Group!

Our live animal programs are great for homeschool co-ops, youth groups, preschools, and your classroom! For specific programs, choose from our selection of program topics below or contact us for a program personalized to fit your lesson plans.

What are the benefits of our programs?

  • A lot of fun for all ages

  • Affordable alternative to an offsite visit

  • Learn about animals, the environment, & conservation

  • Instills a sense of responsibility & respect for life

  • Interactive experience with various animals or science activities

  • Develop connection, trust, & empathy

 

Animal EdVentures Program

🦔Program Pricing🐢

Groups up to 30 participants
• $200 for the first program
• $100 for each additional program

  • Pre-K Programs are $150 for a 30 minute program

🐾 What's Included?
Animal Ambassador Only Programs: 60 minute program features 8 live animals. Every program is tailored to fit your lesson goals and educational needs. (Daycare hour long programs may have fewer animals)

Animal Ambassador & Activity Programs: 60 minute program features 3-4 live animal ambassadors and a guided activity that includes all supplies.

Preschool Programs: 30 minute program featuring 6 live animal ambassadors with story or movement activity.

🖐 A Hands-On Experience
Many of our animals can be safely touched, offering participants an up-close and interactive encounter. Teachers and chaperones are encouraged to take plenty of photos throughout the presentation.

Participants may be able to hold one or two of the ambassador animals if rules can be followed.

Day or Half Day Rates

Have a large group and want it to be a little more personal and hands-on than a large assembly? You can split the groups into smaller time increments to make sure everyone gets attention from me & the animals.

Half-day (3 hours) program: $375 
Full-day (6 hours) program:  $675

Assemblies

Have a large group but short on time? I can do an engaging assembly with up to 150 participants! (The option to handle an animal is not available for assemblies.)

1 hour program: $375

Programs to choose from

Animal ambassadors only

  • Curriculum Specific: We can do programs on food chains, adaptations, classification, ecosystems, life cycles, habitats, wetlands, conservation, endangered species, caring for exotics, or native vs. invasive species. If you don’t see your topic listed, just ask. I’ve been doing this for a while and probably have a lesson plan for what you are looking for!

  • Wild About Animals: Our "Wild About Animals" program brings animals from all over the world for a fun, educational, and interactive presentation! This gives an overview of our animal ambassadors we have brought and an intro to their natural environment. * We recommend this one if you aren’t having us out for anything specific.*

Animal Ambassadors & Activity

  • Wetland Detectives: Learn the importance of the wetlands to wildlife and all about what the wetlands provide for us. Students will be exploring biofacts, meeting a few native reptiles, and make a necklace that represents what wetlands are! (recommended for 4th - 12th grade) *not for assemblies

  • Dig Into the Past: Learners will view fossils from all over the world & meet a few animals with prehistoric traits. They will learn about the geological time scale, the different methods of fossilization, the major fossil types, how the environment and other elements help fossils to form, and “dig” in my fossil sandbox for one fossil to keep. (recommended for Grades 3-12) *not for assemblies

  • Nature Did It First: Nature can teach us a lot about how to survive in the natural world and this has brought on some pretty cool inventions by engineers. Ever wonder what inspired Velcro or high speed trains? Find out in this nature meets engineering class. Learners will meet some animal ambassadors and complete a quick engineering project inspired by what we learned! (recommended for 4th - 12th grade) *not for assemblies

  • Engineering Challenge - Help! Our favorite tortoise, Ducky, is facing a huge problem when crossing the road. Your challenge is to design and build a bridge to protect him. Using the engineering design process, young engineers will work in teams to test and then re-engineer their creations. Also meet 3 other animal ambassadors that use wildlife crossings! (recommended for 4th - 12th grade) *not for assemblies

Preschool & daycare programs

  • Hop, Slither, Crawl: Young learners will look at the different ways animals move…some can walk on four legs, six legs, eight legs or no legs at all. After meeting the animal ambassadors, we’ll try our best to move like animals too! (Pre-K)

  • Animal Storytime: Listen to a story and meet the animal featured in the story plus a few of their friends! We have a selection of books the teacher picks from before the visit. This is a great way to gently introduce young learners to animals. (Pre-K)

  • Daycare General Visit: Have me out for 60 minutes and divide my time between your age groups according to attention spans.

Helpful things for Visits:

  • A secured, easy access loading area (ie. no learners in the area).

  • A 6ft long table.

  • If presentation is to be outside, please provide shade and inform us ahead of time. If it is under 65 degrees or over 95 degrees, we would need to be inside.

  • A 10ft buffer zone between animals and learners.

Travel Fees:

No Travel Fee: St. Tammany, Orleans, Upper Jefferson, Tangipahoa, St. Bernard; and MS counties: Harrison, Pearl River, Hancock.

$25 travel fee for the following parishes/counties: Upper Plaquemines, St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, Livingston, Washington, Stone, Lamar, & Jackson County

$30 travel fee for: Ascension, East Baton Rouge parishes

Travel fees are paid in addition to program fees and are to offset additional vehicle costs.

Questions or ready to book? Contact Tanee at natureonthegeaux@gmail.com